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The feds seem hell-bent on shoving Obamacare down the throats of Americans who by a three to one margin want no part of. It's up to the States themselves to step forward and defend their citizens from this unprecedented attack on our liberties. A "Usurper Detection Act" would be the easiest way to do this. Since it appears that the judicial branch is intent on abandoning it's duty to uphold the Constitution, perhaps it's time for the states themselves to individually pass legislation that will protect their citizens from the actions of anyone who illegally occupies the Oval office. There...

Notice: I've just been informed that a certain ex-poster is going to expose on a yet to be named MAJOR website somewhere on the Internet that FR is an anti-Catholic site. Of course, others have accused us of being anti-Mormon, anti-Jew, anti-Protestant, anti-Pentecost, anti-Baptist, etc, anti-atheist and anti-Darwinist among other things. Well, maybe we are anti some things. Knock yourself out, pal. Just make sure you spell my name and url correctly. Sincerely yours, Jim Thompson

The morning broadcasters, Jack Bishop and Rich Hancock, announced this morning that their organization,"Rational Radio" would be off the air as of Jan 1, 2010. Rational Radio leased this station 24/7 from the Multicultural Broadcast Corp. The rest of the local talkers on this station were discussing their plans thruout the day. Most of them trashing broadcast radio and corporations in general. They are claiming that broadcast radio is dead and Internet Radio is where it is at.

Please call, fax or email your Senator. Also send a message of support to Coburn. During the debate on Obamacare last week, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) forced the reading of an amendment offered by Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to add a single payer system to the Obamacare bill. The reading was expected to take 12 hours. But after only 3 hours, Democrats in the Senate used a parliamentary maneuver to withdraw the amendment. Coburn and other Republicans complained about the move, because the Senate rules don’t seem to allow the withdrawal of an amendment while it’s being read....

I am looking for a kid-friendly video editing sodtware package for my 11-year-old daughter. She is running Windows Vista. I'm looking for something that will enable her to work with text, graphics, video, music. End goal is to enable her to do YouTube videos, and to help her develop her skills. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. I wish I could say money is no object, but unfortunately it is. I'll appreciate any info you may have about price ranges. Thanks as always.

What if everyone who opposed this take over and socialization of our private health care went to their Personnel office at work tomorrow, Monday, or when ever you get back to work from the Christmas holiday and request paperwork to change your exemption to show NO WITHOLDING? Then, on April 15, 2010, file an extention. Then file your income taxes when they are finally due (sometime in August, I think). Some of the Positive Benefits: This action would serve as an act of Civil Disobedience, a protest against an over-reaching tyrannical government, It would hurt the government not to have...

I called the offices of my two loser senators - Cantwell and Murray of WA state. I asked the flunkies who answered the phones why my senator couldn't get the same deal Sen. Ben Nelson got for his Nebraska - in which all the other states get three years of the federal government assuming the cost of extra Medicaid enrollees, but after that, all the other states have to chip in except Nebraska. I told them such a deal would be great for the citizens of my state, and that Murray and Cantwell should hold out for a better deal...

Five (and a half) easy questions. Maybe it's a vanity, but Rush is playing soundbites of someone who fancies himself as a representative of the people speaking of healthcare as a right. So here goes ... If Healthcare is a Right, does this mean that the Government can FORCE a doctor to treat me? If Healthcare is a Right, does this mean that NO ONE can decide not to treat me because there is little hope for a useful recovery? If Healthcare is a Right and there aren't enough doctors, does this mean the Government can force young adults to...

Rally American Patriots!! - a blockade is needed. If enough of us were to assemble in Washington DC on Dec 24, in war painted faces we could shut it down. The un-Constitutional bill destined to be passed could be thwarted. What is one more free Christmas if all the rest are under the yoke of tyranny?

This is a clear-cut and egregious violation of equal treatment under the law. All states pay into medicare except one, and that one happens to be a needed vote. This is unconstitutional.

"To get all 58 Democrats and two independents on board, Reid, among other things, had to drop a government-run insurance option and a Medicare buy-in and had to increase taxes by $25 billion more than planned, bringing the total tax increases to $518 billion."

Sorry for the vanity post, but based on the current polling of the American people, is a referendum to repeal the healthcare bill a viable option? I haven't heard this discussed yet anywhere.

I just heard on the radio, the McConnell might allow the final vote to happen earlier Christmas Eve? Anyone else hearing this?

OK, I know vanity posts piss us off...but no one has asked this... We keep asking if the Democrats think we're stupid and we'll forget about this healthcare vote...no, they don't think we're that stupid...I have a different premise. My premise: The Democrats believe Acorn backed by Eric Holder/Obama, 30 million illegals who will have healthcare since no photo ID is required, and Soros'/MoveOn's money made by betting on the $USD crashing and other disgusting bets he's made against the US, will fund and protect and basically guarantee their reelection...that is my premise. In sum, no, they don't think we'll...

Cuba's foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist island's increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government. Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a half lambasting Obama's behavior in Copenhagen, telling a news conference, "at this summit, there was only imperial, arrogant Obama, who does not listen, who imposes his positions and even threatens developing countries." He called the summit "a fallacy, a farce" and said Washington used back-room deals and strong-arm tactics to foist on the world a deal that he...

Ben Nelson witlessly violated every priciple of a free society by accepting a payoff to the people of Nebraska. In doing so, he corrupted a proposed senate bill because that bill does not provide equal protection and treatment under the law, as it provides certain citizens, namely Nebraskans, with exemptions from the law that no other United States citizens have. This provides Nebraskans with an unequal and lesser financial burden under the law and forces the rest of the states to shoulder that burden. Further, it is discrimatory against the citizens of other states who must pay Nebraska's share of...

December 21, 2009 Senator Harry Reid 522 Hart Senate Office Bldg Washington, DC 20510 Fax: 202-224-7327 Dear Senator Reid – Somewhere along the way you seem to have forgotten that you are supposed to represent your constituents. You remember us don’t you?? The people of the great state of Nevada? If you have forgotten us just look ahead to the 2010 elections. This is when the great people of Nevada make it known that we want a representative – not a king. Please explain some things to me: 1) How can you in good conscience ramrod through a bill that...

An open letter to the Legislature: To whom that care to be concerned: I am but one citizen member of this great nation, I am but one mere voice, but I am none the less. It is with great discomfort that I expel myself from embittered silence and make known that, you whom presume to speak for me, and for the majority of our nation, are being served notice that with all my power of intellect, and of pride, and of sacrifice, I lay upon thee the intent to resist your actions, and the actions of those that will come...

Question - I have been hearing commentators state that the House can simply pass the Senate Health Care bill without the bill going to a conference committee. My question is this - because the Constitution requires all revenue bills to originate in the House, can the House even do this? Wouldn't the bill have to go to committee, then the House vote on the bill first, then the Senate?

My question is if the medical profession is so concerned about people who can't afford health insurance, why don't they simply reduce their prices to the uninsured and or provide charity clinics for poor people. Why should we have to submit to socialism and outright force to please the AMA and guarantee income for their professional scalpers? Are they afraid they will lose some of their precious profits? Why do they feel it's their privilege to rob the taxpayers? Doctors and politicians must be cut from the same cloth.

Senator Ben Nelson gave conservatives and moralists a Christmas gift early. He became the 60th traitor to the Republic. In that, he blew Nebraska away from east to west. They’re mad mad mad. That is Nelson’s evil gift to his state. That is Nelson’s wicked gift to America. I have been wondering a long, long time when it will come to madness. When will grassroots holler till the moon wiggles through night skies?

"bennelson" (emphasis on second syllable) -- def: the shameless offer and shameless acceptance of a bribe using other people's money, especially in a legislative context in order to purchase a crucial vote for a controversial legislative initiative.

Just about everybody is in some way or another acquainted with the classic Charles Dickens story “A Christmas Carol”. A Christmas Carol was released in 1843 and it was essentially a story about the coldness of the human heart and the greed affiliated with it. The story’s character, Ebenezer Scrooge is so greedy and yet so wealthy, that he holds contempt for those who need money for charity, those who need money to survive, and those who want to spend money on gifts for other people. To Scrooge, everybody is more or less a being of consumption in the sense...

Republicans poring over the bill Democrats released Saturday found this on page 328: “(a) APPROPRIATION.—There are authorized to be appropriated, and there are appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2011, to be used for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services. Such facility shall be affiliated with an academic health center at a public research university in the United States that contains a State’s sole public academic medical...

Senator Nelson of Nebraska cut a special deal. In exchange for agreeing to allow government funds be used for abortions, he got a special deal for Nebraska. The special deal was that Nebraska would not have to pay matching funds for Medicade. All the other 49 states must pay matching funds. Many of those state like my own state of California can not afford to pay those matching funds. Who pays for Nebraska's Medicare casts? All of us who live in the other 49 states. BS, I say. We should not stand by while Nebraska sucks money from all the...

Ok, So the dems think they have locked up 60 votes... Here's the question, what states have republican controlled state houses and governors that have a Democratic national Senator? Any??? And how fast could they execute a Recall for them? I gotta believe there are a few states that could fit this criteria.... What is the recall process for Senators? I know price to ammendment 17, they could be recalled by their states at any time, for any reason.

<p>Reid is trying to do cram through, he has his 60. But what if, that is the question. Their is a special election in Massachusetts on 01/19/2010. What if their internals are so bad that a Republican has a chance to win Teddy Kennedy's seat? What if Scott Brown actually wins in Massachusetts? Tangential to this is the age and health of Senator Byrd. These are two risks that could delay their 60 vote fillibuster proof majority. One by going back to 59 if Brown wins, and the other is all the issues that would occur if Byrd's health failed or worse, note we wish him well, but at 95 if my memory is correct, he has been in better health. I look forward to Freepers' thoughts on this.</p>

Jim....There are 100's of Freepers here:CALLING ALL PATRIOTS...WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE????!!!!! and in your own thread, here:If healthcare passes the socialist coup d'etat has advanced beyond the point of no return! who are begging for someone to step up to the plate and provide a platform that will give Conservatives the ability to get the attention of Washington....no...."PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN THEM!!! Spectre said it best: "WE NEED A PLAN PLEASE SOMEONE STEP FORWARD We need a LEADER who is not afraid of their political future. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE STEP FORWARD “ I respectfully submit that...

I read a great post this AM, on my first visit to the FR site after waking up. I'd thought I'd saved it to my Favorites list, because I didn't have time to respond to it, which would at least have registered it on my PING list. It was QUITE LENGTHY, and made a great number of points about the need to eventually SHUT DOWN THIS GOVERNMENT. There were a great number of highly rhetorical and polemical points made, very carefully laid out. I do remember the line "Try NOT paying your Property Taxes ONCE!" among many others. I have...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington Nov. 3

The saddest thing about this is that there isn't a single hero in the democrat senate...... The facts are simple: this is a bad bill the American people don't want... A clearly corrupt president has bribed his way into passing the bill by using his minions to do the dirty work, so they will be remembered as the "bad guys and girls" when this travesty is over thrown, which, my good friends it will be..... There is not one single person of conscience in the democrat senate, and they will pay a price for it in the coming elections, for...

During 5:30 Mass this evening at St Francis Parish in Mount Kisco, our priest, a former Marine, brought up the topic of the health care bill in his homily. His words were the most powerful I've ever heard..."They are going to vote on a healthcare bill, one which will fund abortion" Father Clarke started. "There was one senator holding out, but he finally caved in after receiving favors and promises for his district," he continued. "That's one more life that won't be lived. I hope this senator remembers that on Friday we celebrate the birth of someone who was later...

If you can be in Omaha Nebraska by 3:00 tomorrow, Sunday, December 20 there will be a protest at the Omaha Music Hall ..

The 60 votes are there for ObamaCare to pass in the Senate. The only thing preventing a vote is a blizzard in Connecticut, where Joe Lieberman went home for Sabbath. So you might say that God is the reason, both for sending Joe home and for sending the snow storm. I'm beginning to think that it will take a miracle to stop this massive take-over of the health care industry. So I propose an ongoing Rosary vigil. How it works is that I begin by saying a Rosary. When I finish, I reply to this thread. Hopefully, someone else will...

Is there some reason that a Republican Senator cannot walk in and fillibuster ala Mr. Smith?????? If this timeline is so important why not disturb it?

Senator Joe Lieberman is snowed in up in Connecticut--which means no vote on Øbama "Care" until he can make it back to DC! In honor of this fortuitous blizzard Oh the healthcare reform is frightful Status quo is so delightful And since there’s no vote sans Joe Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! The Dems don’t show signs of stopping Our tax rates will soon be popping Cancer screens will be cut real low Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! If Joe finally leaves tonight How he'll hate going out in the storm! But...

This morning I woke up to a lovely blanket of snow, and the ugly news that Nelson's vote had been bought for Obamacare. It got me thinking. I love this country, and because of the love that I have for it, I respect its offices and officials. But with the pending passage of Obamacare, things are changing. It’s important for me to be able to make the distinction between America and its invader. The invader is Marxism. But Marxism isn’t so simple to identify. Many Americans, especially my generation (I’m 23), grew up believing that we defeated “communism” and that...

Since he sold out the country perhaps we should send him 30 pennies. Now I know it should be 30 silver coins but we don't make them any more and he and his ilk not only sold out the country but devalued our currency. so 30 pennies seems appropriate.

This ammendment is outrageous and will forever change the way we receive Healthcare. Americans to be herded into Community Health Centers run by the Government.

Sleeping has been all but non existent for me. I get up 2 or 3 times throughout the wee morning hours to see if I still have a country left. This morning, I read..

As bad as the 0bamacare bill soon to be Rahm'd down our throats is [as any of us could go on explaining for weeks] "health care" is not the real goal. It is the distraction. Notice how Nancy, Harry and 0bama have repeatedly said that they are willing to lose the house and senate in 2010 to pass this abomination. Think about that. These people are about nothing but raw unbridled power, and abusing power, for their own self aggrandizement. They're willing to throw it all away for this turkey? What could possibly motivate them to remove their boots from...

Let's face it FRiends, if the unconstitutional healthcare bill passes, the socialist coup d'etat will have advanced well beyond the point of no return! There is nothing in the constitution that authorizes this illegal federal power-grab and plenty that forbids it. If the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Marxist attempted coup pulls this off without the people resisting to the hilt, then they'll have no restrictions whatsoever on implementing the rest of their Liberty killing Marxist agenda. America will be no more. The whole idea of our constitution is to severely restrict the federal government to only its dozen and a half expressly listed...

There's a lovely new video out called "The Mujahideen Don't Target Muslims."  (Yeah, right, whatever you say Adam.)  It's put out by the terrorists over at As-Sahab (the media wing of Al Qaeda, in case you didn't know) but that doesn't stop YouTube from hosting it so that it can be embedded free of charge for all the little jihadis all over the world to get jacked up about.  On December 16, Ronin called for a little YouTube Smackdown and so of course I had to check it out.  One of the posts he had was from a YouTuber named...

This isn't REID bribing Nelson, it is our OWN TAX PAYER MONEY bribing Nelson and his state. THE CURRENT SYSTEM MUST BE DESTROYED. CREDIT GOES TO Cheerio FOR THE ABOVE STATEMENT..... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411155/posts?page=38#38 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE???? CAN WE WAIT FOR NOV. '1O??? FREEDOM!!!!!

William Connolley is apparently a Wikipedia administrator. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Connolley All told, (William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked...

And he said,”I tell you the truth, unless you CHANGE and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Mat 18:3 This will be the worst Christmas of most of our lives, thanks to Ebaarack Scrooge needing to push his religion on America. We may never have a more clear vision in our lifetimes of the brazen Cultists of Liberalism. Witnessing the trifecta of Global Scamming, Cap &Tax and DeathCare we clearly see a present danger of the lies of communism. Just as we have miraculously had a few honest scientists leak the outrageous lies of...

Laissez Faire Wikipedia What we believe * Humans deserve care and respect, regardless of societal status. Including: o Illegal aliens, Prisoners, Ex-Prisoners, and Drug abusers. o Punishment as a form of justice leads to abuse. * Capitalism promotes wealth as an indicator of human value. o People are thought of as commodities instead of humans. o Richer people spend less time in prison than poor people. o This is a form of fascism o Republicans and Democrats are both capitalist political parties. o Lobbying is legalized corruption on behalf of corporations.

I mean how do we stop this take over of our lives and the lives of our children? I'm a Marine Corps veteran, divorced, and a single mother (my ex-husband is still in the Marines serving this "rapidly becoming red" country)....We have a 6 year old little girl (today is her birthday:).....I want her to have the ability to be free, have a reason to be ambitious, and work hard to make something of her life. How do we stop this administration from destroying her future? I have called my senators and congressmen and for what?! To see Obama throw...

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Top photo: Jim Robinson leads Free Republic's Clinton Impeachment Rally, aka March for Justice, Washington, D.C. October 31, 1998Center: Washington Post front page, December 20, 1998.Bottom: AP/World Wide Photo.For those who are unaware of Free Republic's history making in its early years, please know that Jim Robinson and the Freepers played a key role in getting Bill Clinton impeached. The impeachhment rally was broadcast live on C-SPAN (all four hours!)Founder of the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, MrConfettiMan (who has since passed away) wrote his thoughts about the rally back then:Saturday, October 31st, The March for JusticeI drove into Washington for...